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  1. Polymeric encapsulation of a ruthenium(ii) polypyridyl complex: from synthesis to in vivo studies against high-grade epithelial ovarian cancer

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  2. One-Pot Catalysis: A Privileged Approach for Sustainable Polymers?

    Article • Accounts of Chemical Research, July 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  3. One-pot catalysis from renewable resources: A direct route to recyclable camphor-based polycarbonates

    Article • July 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  4. One-pot catalysis from renewable resources: A direct route to recyclable camphor-based polycarbonates

    Article • July 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  5. 2,5-Furandicarboxylic Acid: An Intriguing Precursor for Monomer and Polymer Synthesis

    Article • Molecules, June 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  6. Ambient Temperature Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate Mediated by Ate Complexes

    Article • ChemCatChem, January 2022, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  7. Homoleptic phenoxy-imine pyridine zinc complexes: efficient catalysts for solvent free synthesis and chemical degradation of polyesters

    Article • Catalysis Science & Technology, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  8. Highly Efficient Synthesis of Poly(silylether)s: Access to Degradable Polymers from Renewable Resources

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, December 2021, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  9. Highly Efficient Synthesis of Poly(silylether)s: Access to Degradable Polymers from Renewable Resources

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, December 2021, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  10. Multicatalytic Transformation of (Meth)acrylic Acids: a One‐Pot Approach to Biobased Poly(meth)acrylates

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, July 2021, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  11. Multicatalytic Transformation of (Meth)acrylic Acids: a One‐Pot Approach to Biobased Poly(meth)acrylates

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, July 2021, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  12. Production and Polymerization of Biobased Acrylates and Analogs

    Article • Macromolecular Rapid Communications, January 2021, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  13. Collective radical oligomerisation induced by an STM tip on a silicon surface

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  14. Controlling polymer stereochemistry in ring-opening polymerization: a decade of advances shaping the future of biodegradable polyesters

    Article • Chemical Society Reviews, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  15. Multicatalysis from renewable resources: a direct route to furan-based polyesters

    Article • Green Chemistry, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  16. Incorporation of Ru(II) Polypyridyl Complexes into Nanomaterials for Cancer Therapy and Diagnosis

    Article • Advanced Materials, October 2020, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  17. Encapsulation of a Ru(II) Polypyridyl Complex into Polylactide Nanoparticles for Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy

    Article • Pharmaceutics, October 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  18. Catalyst Design for Alkene Epoxidation by Molecular Analogues of Heterogeneous Titanium-Silicalite Catalysts

    Article • ACS Catalysis, January 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  19. Aluminum‐Catalyzed One‐Pot Synthesis of Polyester‐ b ‐Polypeptide Block Copolymers by Ring‐Opening Polymerization

    Article • Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, March 2019, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  20. Polymerization of Cyclic Carbamates: A Practical Route to Aliphatic Polyurethanes

    Article • Macromolecules, March 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  21. On-Surface Radical Oligomerisation: A New Approach to STM Tip-Induced Reactions

    Article • January 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  22. On-Surface Radical Oligomerisation: A New Approach to STM Tip-Induced Reactions

    Article • January 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  23. Real-Time Control of the Enantioselectivity of a Supramolecular Catalyst Allows Selecting the Configuration of Consecutively Formed Stereogenic Centers

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, October 2017, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  24. Real-Time Control of the Enantioselectivity of a Supramolecular Catalyst Allows Selecting the Configuration of Consecutively Formed Stereogenic Centers

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, October 2017, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  25. Mechanistic Aspects of the Polymerization of Lactide Using a Highly Efficient Aluminum(III) Catalytic System

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, April 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  26. Facile and efficient chemical functionalization of aliphatic polyesters by cross metathesis

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  27. Microstructurally controlled polymers of rac-lactide by lithium complexes

    Article • Comptes Rendus Chimie, January 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  28. Synthesis of heterotactic PLA from rac-lactide using hetero-bimetallic Mg/Zn–Li systems

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, November 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  29. ChemInform Abstract: Tandem Catalysis: A new Approach to Polymers

    Article • ChemInform, January 2014, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  30. Zinc and cobalt complexes based on tripodal ligands: synthesis, structure and reactivity toward lactide

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  31. Tandem catalysis: a new approach to polypeptides and cyclic carbonates

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  32. Replacing Tin in Lactide Polymerization: Design of Highly Active Germanium‐Based Catalysts

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, November 2013, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  33. Replacing Tin in Lactide Polymerization: Design of Highly Active Germanium‐Based Catalysts

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, November 2013, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  34. A joint experimental/theoretical investigation of the MMA polymerization initiated by yttrium phenoxyamine complexes

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  35. Tandem catalysis: a new approach to polymers

    Article • Chemical Society Reviews, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  36. Yttrium catalysts for syndioselective β-butyrolactone polymerization: on the origin of ligand-induced stereoselectivity

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  37. Polymerization of cyclic esters using N-heterocyclic carbene carboxylate catalysts

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  38. ChemInform Abstract: Precision Synthesis of Biodegradable Polymers

    Article • ChemInform, January 2012, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  39. Synthesis of biodegradable polymers from renewable resources

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  40. Supported neodymium catalysts for MMA polymerization: on the origin of surface-induced stereoselectivity

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  41. Tandem synthesis of alternating polyesters from renewable resources

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  42. Präzisionssynthese bioabbaubarer Polymere

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, July 2011, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  43. Precision Synthesis of Biodegradable Polymers

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, July 2011, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  44. Polymerization of Racemic β-Butyrolactone Using Gold Catalysts: A Simple Access to Biodegradable Polymers

    Article • Organometallics, April 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  45. ChemInform Abstract: Direct Amination of Aryl Halides with Ammonia

    Article • ChemInform, January 2011, Wiley

    Jean-Luc RENAUD, Professor Christophe Thomas

  46. Encapsulation and controlled release of l-leuprolide from poly(β-hydroxyalkanoate)s: impact of microstructure and chemical functionalities

    Article • New Journal of Chemistry, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  47. Metal‐Catalyzed Synthesis of Alternating Copolymers

    Article • Macromolecular Rapid Communications, November 2010, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  48. ChemInform Abstract: Efficient Synthesis of Aminopyridine Derivatives by Copper Catalyzed Amination Reactions.

    Article • ChemInform, May 2010, Wiley

    Jean-Luc RENAUD, Professor Christophe Thomas

  49. ChemInform Abstract: Stereocontrolled Ring‐Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Esters: Synthesis of New Polyester Microstructures

    Article • ChemInform, April 2010, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  50. New Dipyridylamine Ruthenium Complexes for Transfer Hydrogenation of Aryl Ketones in Water

    Article • Organometallics, March 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Jean-Luc RENAUD, Professor Christophe Thomas

  51. Polymerization of racemic β-butyrolactone using supported catalysts: a simple access to isotactic polymers

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  52. Design of a well-defined, silica-supported chiral Zn scaffold for enantioselective catalysis

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  53. Efficient synthesis of aminopyridine derivatives by copper catalyzed amination reactions

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Jean-Luc RENAUD, Professor Christophe Thomas

  54. Direct amination of aryl halides with ammonia

    Article • Chemical Society Reviews, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Jean-Luc RENAUD, Professor Christophe Thomas

  55. Stereocontrolled ring-opening polymerization of cyclic esters: synthesis of new polyester microstructures

    Article • Chemical Society Reviews, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  56. Polymerization of Enantiopure Monomers Using Syndiospecific Catalysts: A New Approach To Sequence Control in Polymer Synthesis

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, November 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  57. Copper(II) Triflate as a Source of Triflic Acid: Effective, Green Catalysis of Hydroalkoxylation Reactions

    Article • Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, October 2009, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  58. Aluminum and Yttrium Complexes of an Unsymmetrical Mixed Fluorous Alkoxy/Phenoxy-Diimino Ligand: Synthesis, Structure, and Ring-Opening Polymerization Catalysis

    Article • Organometallics, February 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  59. Syndiotactic-Enriched Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)s via Stereoselective Ring-Opening Polymerization of Racemic β-Butyrolactone with Discrete Yttrium Catalysts

    Article • Macromolecules, January 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  60. Aluminum Complexes of Fluorinated Dialkoxy-Diimino Salen-like Ligands: Syntheses, Structures, and Use in Ring-Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Esters

    Article • Organometallics, November 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  61. Dichlorobis(tricyclohexylphosphine)palladium

    Article • September 2008, Wiley

    Jean-Luc RENAUD, Professor Christophe Thomas

  62. Controlled radical polymerization of conjugated 1,3-dienes with methyl 1,3-butadiene-1-phosphonate

    Article • Polymer, September 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  63. ChemInform Abstract: Highly Efficient and Economic Synthesis of New Substituted Amino‐bispyridyl Derivatives via Copper and Palladium Catalysis.

    Article • ChemInform, August 2008, Wiley

    Jean-Luc RENAUD, Professor Christophe Thomas

  64. ChemInform Abstract: Discrete verus in situ‐Generated Aluminum‐Salen Catalysts in Enantioselective Cyanosilylation of Ketones: Role of Achiral Ligands.

    Article • ChemInform, July 2008, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  65. Bis(guanidinate) Alkoxide Complexes of Lanthanides: Synthesis, Structures and Use in Immortal and Stereoselective Ring-Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Esters

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, June 2008, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  66. Highly efficient and economic synthesis of new substituted amino-bispyridyl derivatives via copper and palladium catalysis

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, May 2008, Elsevier

    Jean-Luc RENAUD, Professor Christophe Thomas

  67. Discrete versus In Situ‐Generated Aluminum‐Salen Catalysts in Enantioselective Cyanosilylation of Ketones: Role of Achiral Ligands

    Article • Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, March 2008, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  68. Functional Elastomers via Sequential Selective Diene Copolymerization/Hydrophosphorylation Catalysis

    Article • Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, February 2008, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  69. Synthesis of new dipyridinylamine and dipyridinylmethane ligands and their coordination chemistry with Mg(ii) and Zn(ii)

    Article • New Journal of Chemistry, January 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Jean-Luc RENAUD, Professor Christophe Thomas

  70. Zinc and enolato-magnesium complexes based on bi-, tri- and tetradentate aminophenolate ligands

    Article • New Journal of Chemistry, January 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  71. Convenient synthesis of mono- and di-β-hydroxy-β-bis(trifluoromethyl)-(di)imines from β-hydroxy-β-bis(trifluoromethyl)-ketones and (di)amines

    Article • Tetrahedron, January 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  72. Magnesium complexes based on an amido-bis(pyrazolyl) ligand: Synthesis, crystal structures, and use in lactide polymerization

    Article • Polyhedron, August 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  73. Chromium Catalysts Based on Tridentate Pyrazolyl Ligands for Ethylene Oligomerization

    Article • Organometallics, July 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  74. Yttrium Complexes as Catalysts for Living and Immortal Polymerization of Lactide to Highly Heterotactic PLA

    Article • Macromolecular Rapid Communications, March 2007, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  75. Highly Effective Polymerization of Acrylate Catalyzed by a “Constrained Geometry” Titanium Complex/B(C6F5)3 System

    Article • Macromolecules, March 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  76. Artificial Metalloenzymes for Enantioselective Catalysis: Recent Advances

    Article • ChemInform, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  77. Chiral Fluorous Dialkoxy‐Diamino Zirconium Complexes: Synthesis and Use in Stereospecific Polymerization of 1‐Hexene

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  78. Controlled ring-opening polymerization of lactide by group 3 metal complexes

    Article • Pure and Applied Chemistry, January 2007, De Gruyter

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  79. Aluminum and Zinc Complexes Based on an Amino-Bis(pyrazolyl) Ligand:  Synthesis, Structures, and Use in MMA and Lactide Polymerization

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, January 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  80. “Constrained Geometry” Titanium Complexes:  Exceptionally Robust Systems for Living Polymerization of Methacrylates at High Temperature and Model Studies toward Chain Transfer Polymerization with Thiols

    Article • Organometallics, November 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  81. Efficient and Selective Rhodium‐Catalyzed Hydrophosphorylation of Dienes

    Article • Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, June 2006, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  82. Highly Active, Productive, and Syndiospecific Yttrium Initiators for the Polymerization of Racemic β‐Butyrolactone

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, April 2006, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  83. Highly Active, Productive, and Syndiospecific Yttrium Initiators for the Polymerization of Racemic β‐Butyrolactone

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, April 2006, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  84. Mixed Aluminum‐Magnesium‐Rare Earth Allyl Catalysts for Controlled Isoprene Polymerization: Modulation of Stereocontrol

    Article • Macromolecular Rapid Communications, February 2006, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  85. Ring-opening polymerization of 3,6-dimethyl-2,5-morpholinedione with discrete amino-alkoxy-bis(phenolate) yttrium initiators: mechanistic insights

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2006, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  86. Aqueous oxidation of alcohols catalyzed by artificial metalloenzymes based on the biotin–avidin technology

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, October 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  87. Artificial Metalloenzymes: Proteins as Hosts for Enantioselective Catalysis

    Article • ChemInform, July 2005, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  88. Microstructurally Controlled Polyisoprene or Polystyrene Diblock Copolymers of rac‐Lactide

    Article • Macromolecular Rapid Communications, July 2005, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  89. Design of artificial metalloenzymes

    Article • Applied Organometallic Chemistry, January 2005, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  90. Artificial metalloenzymes: proteins as hosts for enantioselective catalysis

    Article • Chemical Society Reviews, January 2005, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  91. Cobalt‐Based Complexes for the Copolymerization of Propylene Oxide and CO2: Active and Selective Catalysts for Polycarbonate Synthesis

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, November 2003, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  92. New benzotriazole derivatives as multifunctional ligands

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, September 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Christophe Thomas, Professor Emerita Helen Stoeckli-Evans

  93. [CoI2(C6H4N3CH2CO2C4H2SCO2CH2C6H4N3)], a coordination polymer containing the thiophene-2,5-di(carboxylatomethylenebenzotriazole) bridging ligand: synthesis, structure, redox properties

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry Communications, April 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Christophe Thomas, Professor Emerita Helen Stoeckli-Evans

  94. Synthesis and structure of [(C5H5)Fe(C5H4PS2OCH2C6H4N3)]−, a new phosphonodithioate derivative, and its coordination chemistry with rhodium(I) and nickel(II)

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, August 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Christophe Thomas, Professor Emerita Helen Stoeckli-Evans

  95. ChemInform Abstract: Catalytic Oxidation of Alcohols into Aldehydes and Ketones by an Osmium—Copper Bifunctional System Using Molecular Oxygen.

    Article • ChemInform, August 1999, Wiley

    Professor Christophe Thomas

  96. Catalytic oxidation of alcohols into aldehydes and ketones by an osmium-copper bifunctional system using molecular oxygen

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, May 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Christophe Thomas